📚 Octavia E. Butler kept Survivor out of print on purpose.
She called it her Star Trek novel. A rush job. Not good enough. So she let it disappear, and for nearly 50 years, it stayed gone. This fall, it's back.
Grand Central Publishing is releasing Survivor on September 1 alongside a previously unpublished short story and essays from Butler scholars. The secondary market had been charging serious money for copies. Now you won't have to.
Worth noting: Butler was against this reissue. It's part of what you're holding when you read it. Patternist series. Black speculative canon. One of the most complicated publishing stories in the genre.
Women of Afrofuturism is up at SFO Museum right now. It is inside Harvey Milk Terminal 1, past security, in one of the country's busiest airports. Not in a gallery. In the terminal.
Tours run every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 AM through July 30. Six dates left: July 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, and 30.
To visit: apply ahead of time for a free Gate Explorer Pass at flysfo.com, bring your Real ID or passport, and go through TSA.
📚 Four preorders worth locking in before August hits.
📖 SEASON OF THE SERPENT by Suyi Davies Okungbowa The Nameless Republic trilogy ends here. Bassa has fallen, the islands are gone, and what's left has to pick a side before the next war.
📖 THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF ZAHARA DOUGLASS by Leslye Penelope A dancer's twin sister disappears, and the world rewrites itself so no one remembers her. Five years later, Zahara's still the only one who does. Y2K panic, a private investigator, and a truth someone worked hard to bury.
📖 THE TONGUE I DREAM IN by Sheree Renée Thomas Poems, stories, and essays pulled from Black legend and myth. The 36th book in PM Press's Outspoken Authors series, from a three-time World Fantasy Award winner.
📖 BLOOD RISING by Markus Redmond The Blood Saga continues. The plantation's been reclaimed, but the old slaveholders aren't done fighting, and freedom isn't secure yet. Book two.
Preordering matters. It's how these books show up on bestseller lists in their first week. Lock yours in now.
📚 Preorder at www.sistahscifi.com or request through your local library.
🩸 The question none of the ""prestige horror"" panels ever ask: what happens when the monster is the system?
The Monsters We Know: Black Horror as Resistance brings together Tamika Thompson (The Curse of Hester Gardens), Justin C. Key (The Hospital at the End of the World), moderated by Ayize Jama-Everett (Heroes of an Unknown World) for a conversation on what Black horror does that other horror won't touch.
Sistah Scifi is proud to amplify this one, hosted by Frontier Tower and Aunt Lute.
📍 Saturday, July 11 🕑 2PM to 4:30PM PDT 📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco 👉🏾 Details and RSVP at sistahscifi.com/pages/events
If you're in the Bay, this is not one to sleep on. 🤎
Georgian Bay Métis storyteller. The mind behind The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars, where Indigenous people are hunted for the one thing colonization could never take. The ability to dream.
Dimaline writes survival like it's inheritance. Worlds where memory is resistance and kinship is the whole point. The kind of speculative fiction that rearranges how you think about who gets to imagine the future.
📚 Grab her work at www.sistahscifi.com or request it from your favorite #library.
📚 Happy pub day, Siblings. THE FEYWILD JOB by C.L. Polk is out today.
Saeldian doesn't fall in love. Not because they're guarded, but because their magic depends on it. Give your heart away and you lose your power. So they keep things simple. Heists, no strings, a trail of broken hearts behind them. Then a job comes along that's too good to pass up. Steal a gem called the Kiss of Enduring Love and carry it into the Feywild. The complication isn't the magic or the danger. It's Kell. The bard on the crew. The ex they walked away from years ago, after a kiss turned into a betrayal.
A heist romance set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons, from the author of the Kingston Cycle.
📚 Grab your copy at www.sistahscifi.com or request it from your favorite #library.
🗓️✊🏾 Three Saturdays. Three rooms worth being in. July is stacked, Siblings. 🩸 July 11 | The Monsters We Know: Black Horror as Resistance
Frontier Tower, San Francisco | 2PM to 4:30PM PDT
Tamika Thompson and Justin C. Key on Black horror as truth-telling, survival, and resistance. Moderated by Ayize Jama-Everett. 📚 July 18 | A Is for Afrofuturism
West Oakland Public Library | 3:30PM to 4:45PM PDT | FREE
Isis Asare and Angela Dalton in conversation on Afrofuturism at the West Oakland Library. Made possible through the Oakland Literacy Coalition. 🌌 July 25 | Octavia's Legacy: Imagining the Futures She Made Possible
Berkeley Public Library | 2PM to 3:30PM PDT
Be Steadwell, Duane Horton, and Imani Sims on the worlds Octavia Butler opened up. And who's building in them now. Organized by Aunt Lute Books.
Now available in the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @naamnw
📚 Africa Risen
Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology and the 2023 Locus Award for Best Anthology, Africa Risen is a landmark collection edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight.
This extraordinary anthology features thirty-two original stories showcasing the brilliance, breadth, and power of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. From ancestor-guided supercomputers to child robots on dying planets to descendants of rain goddesses discovering their inheritance, these stories are bold, imaginative, and unforgettable.
A 2023 NAACP Image Award nominee, a 2023 British Fantasy Award nominee, and an NPR and Book Riot Best of the Year pick, Africa Risen continues the legacy of the groundbreaking Dark Matter anthology series and reminds us that Africa is not rising—it’s already here.
📍 Stop by the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @naamnw and grab your copy today.
🎨📚 Join us for the next meeting of the Sistah Scifi Graphic Novel Club!
We're discussing HoverGirls by the incredible Geneva Bowers, the WEBTOON sensation turned gorgeous graphic novel featuring magical girls, supernatural powers, family bonds, and monsters threatening an entire city.
✨ Meet cousins Jalissa and Kim Vasquez as they navigate a new city, newfound powers, and the challenges of becoming heroes when fame, friendship, and destiny collide.
📅 Saturday, June 27, 2026 ⏰ 4:00 PM PT / 7:00 PM ET 📍 Online
Whether you're a longtime comics fan or new to graphic novels, we'd love to have you join the conversation!
Register today and read along with us!
🔗 www.sistahscifi.com/pages/events
Please join the Fabulize book channel on Discord for updates and communication: discord.gg/KRqAcSjfq
Tag your graphic novel-loving friends and tell us: What was your favorite magical girl story growing up?
📚🌌 Sometimes you need strange fiction to show you the truth.
The best speculative novels don't run from reality. They drag it into the light and make you look. Vaishnavi Patel pulled these together in the New York Times, and every one uses the impossible to expose something very real.
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin. New York's five boroughs come alive as people, and the rot trying to swallow the city wears the face of bigotry itself.
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami. An algorithm reads Sara's dreams and decides she's about to commit a crime. She hasn't. She gets detained anyway. Surveillance fiction that lands a little too close.
Lakewood, Megan Giddings. A young Black woman takes a job that's too good to be true: free housing, full coverage, secret medical research. The horror here isn't invented. It has a history.
Three books that hold a mirror to now. 🤎
📚 Grab your copies at www.sistahscifi.com, our Bookshop at bookshop.org/shop/SistahScifi, or on audio through @Libro.fm.
You can also request them from your favorite #library. Which one are you reading first? 👇🏾
Sistah Scifi
📚 Octavia E. Butler kept Survivor out of print on purpose.
She called it her Star Trek novel. A rush job. Not good enough. So she let it disappear, and for nearly 50 years, it stayed gone.
This fall, it's back.
Grand Central Publishing is releasing Survivor on September 1 alongside a previously unpublished short story and essays from Butler scholars. The secondary market had been charging serious money for copies. Now you won't have to.
Worth noting: Butler was against this reissue. It's part of what you're holding when you read it.
Patternist series. Black speculative canon. One of the most complicated publishing stories in the genre.
September 1.
#SistahScifi #OctaviaButler #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors #Survivor #PatternistSeries #Library #Afrofuturism
5 hours ago | [YT] | 3
View 1 reply
Sistah Scifi
🗓️ Bay Area Siblings.
Women of Afrofuturism is up at SFO Museum right now. It is inside Harvey Milk Terminal 1, past security, in one of the country's busiest airports. Not in a gallery. In the terminal.
Tours run every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 AM through July 30. Six dates left: July 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, and 30.
To visit: apply ahead of time for a free Gate Explorer Pass at flysfo.com, bring your Real ID or passport, and go through TSA.
👉🏾 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-tour-of-women-of-a…
📍 Harvey Milk Terminal 1 | San Francisco International Airport
#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors #Library #Afrofuturism #BayArea #SFOMuseum #WomenOfAfrofuturism
2 days ago | [YT] | 3
View 1 reply
Sistah Scifi
📚 Four preorders worth locking in before August hits.
📖 SEASON OF THE SERPENT by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
The Nameless Republic trilogy ends here. Bassa has fallen, the islands are gone, and what's left has to pick a side before the next war.
📖 THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF ZAHARA DOUGLASS by Leslye Penelope
A dancer's twin sister disappears, and the world rewrites itself so no one remembers her. Five years later, Zahara's still the only one who does. Y2K panic, a private investigator, and a truth someone worked hard to bury.
📖 THE TONGUE I DREAM IN by Sheree Renée Thomas
Poems, stories, and essays pulled from Black legend and myth. The 36th book in PM Press's Outspoken Authors series, from a three-time World Fantasy Award winner.
📖 BLOOD RISING by Markus Redmond
The Blood Saga continues. The plantation's been reclaimed, but the old slaveholders aren't done fighting, and freedom isn't secure yet. Book two.
Preordering matters. It's how these books show up on bestseller lists in their first week. Lock yours in now.
📚 Preorder at www.sistahscifi.com or request through your local library.
#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors #Library #Preorder #BlackAuthors
3 days ago | [YT] | 8
View 1 reply
Sistah Scifi
🩸 The question none of the ""prestige horror"" panels ever ask: what happens when the monster is the system?
The Monsters We Know: Black Horror as Resistance brings together Tamika Thompson (The Curse of Hester Gardens), Justin C. Key (The Hospital at the End of the World), moderated by Ayize Jama-Everett (Heroes of an Unknown World) for a conversation on what Black horror does that other horror won't touch.
Sistah Scifi is proud to amplify this one, hosted by Frontier Tower and Aunt Lute.
📍 Saturday, July 11
🕑 2PM to 4:30PM PDT
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
👉🏾 Details and RSVP at sistahscifi.com/pages/events
If you're in the Bay, this is not one to sleep on. 🤎
#sistahscifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #blackhorror #africanfuturism #supportblackauthors #library #frontiertower #sfbookevents
4 days ago | [YT] | 6
View 0 replies
Sistah Scifi
🎉 Happy birthday to Cherie Dimaline 🤎
Georgian Bay Métis storyteller. The mind behind The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars, where Indigenous people are hunted for the one thing colonization could never take. The ability to dream.
Dimaline writes survival like it's inheritance. Worlds where memory is resistance and kinship is the whole point. The kind of speculative fiction that rearranges how you think about who gets to imagine the future.
📚 Grab her work at www.sistahscifi.com or request it from your favorite #library.
What Dimaline book pulled you in first? 👇🏾
#SistahScifi #CherieDimaline #IndigenousFuturism #TheMarrowThieves #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SupportIndigenousAuthors #Library
1 week ago | [YT] | 6
View 0 replies
Sistah Scifi
📚 Happy pub day, Siblings.
THE FEYWILD JOB by C.L. Polk is out today.
Saeldian doesn't fall in love. Not because they're guarded, but because their magic depends on it. Give your heart away and you lose your power. So they keep things simple. Heists, no strings, a trail of broken hearts behind them.
Then a job comes along that's too good to pass up. Steal a gem called the Kiss of Enduring Love and carry it into the Feywild. The complication isn't the magic or the danger. It's Kell. The bard on the crew. The ex they walked away from years ago, after a kiss turned into a betrayal.
A heist romance set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons, from the author of the Kingston Cycle.
📚 Grab your copy at www.sistahscifi.com or request it from your favorite #library.
#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors #Library #Romantasy #DungeonsAndDragons
1 week ago | [YT] | 7
View 0 replies
Sistah Scifi
🗓️✊🏾 Three Saturdays. Three rooms worth being in. July is stacked, Siblings.
🩸 July 11 | The Monsters We Know: Black Horror as Resistance
Frontier Tower, San Francisco | 2PM to 4:30PM PDT
Tamika Thompson and Justin C. Key on Black horror as truth-telling, survival, and resistance. Moderated by Ayize Jama-Everett.
📚 July 18 | A Is for Afrofuturism
West Oakland Public Library | 3:30PM to 4:45PM PDT | FREE
Isis Asare and Angela Dalton in conversation on Afrofuturism at the West Oakland Library. Made possible through the Oakland Literacy Coalition.
🌌 July 25 | Octavia's Legacy: Imagining the Futures She Made Possible
Berkeley Public Library | 2PM to 3:30PM PDT
Be Steadwell, Duane Horton, and Imani Sims on the worlds Octavia Butler opened up. And who's building in them now. Organized by Aunt Lute Books.
👉🏾 Register now at sistahscifi.com/pages/events
#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #BlackHorror #Afrofuturism #OctaviaButler #SupportBlackAuthors #SpeculativeFiction #Library
1 week ago | [YT] | 9
View 0 replies
Sistah Scifi
✨Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight ✨
Now available in the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @naamnw
📚 Africa Risen
Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology and the 2023 Locus Award for Best Anthology, Africa Risen is a landmark collection edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight.
This extraordinary anthology features thirty-two original stories showcasing the brilliance, breadth, and power of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. From ancestor-guided supercomputers to child robots on dying planets to descendants of rain goddesses discovering their inheritance, these stories are bold, imaginative, and unforgettable.
A 2023 NAACP Image Award nominee, a 2023 British Fantasy Award nominee, and an NPR and Book Riot Best of the Year pick, Africa Risen continues the legacy of the groundbreaking Dark Matter anthology series and reminds us that Africa is not rising—it’s already here.
📍 Stop by the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @naamnw and grab your copy today.
#SistahScifi #AfricaRisen #Afrofuturism #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SistahScifiBookVendingMachine #NAAM #DeserveToBeFound
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 4
View 0 replies
Sistah Scifi
🎨📚 Join us for the next meeting of the Sistah Scifi Graphic Novel Club!
We're discussing HoverGirls by the incredible Geneva Bowers, the WEBTOON sensation turned gorgeous graphic novel featuring magical girls, supernatural powers, family bonds, and monsters threatening an entire city.
✨ Meet cousins Jalissa and Kim Vasquez as they navigate a new city, newfound powers, and the challenges of becoming heroes when fame, friendship, and destiny collide.
📅 Saturday, June 27, 2026
⏰ 4:00 PM PT / 7:00 PM ET
📍 Online
Whether you're a longtime comics fan or new to graphic novels, we'd love to have you join the conversation!
Register today and read along with us!
🔗 www.sistahscifi.com/pages/events
Please join the Fabulize book channel on Discord for updates and communication: discord.gg/KRqAcSjfq
Tag your graphic novel-loving friends and tell us: What was your favorite magical girl story growing up?
#SistahScifi #GraphicNovelClub #HoverGirls #GenevaBowers #BlackComics #BlackCreators #GraphicNovels #ComicsCommunity #MagicalGirls #YAComics #BlackGeekCulture #BlerdCulture #BookClub #VirtualEvent #SupportBlackCreators
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 3
View 0 replies
Sistah Scifi
📚🌌 Sometimes you need strange fiction to show you the truth.
The best speculative novels don't run from reality. They drag it into the light and make you look. Vaishnavi Patel pulled these together in the New York Times, and every one uses the impossible to expose something very real.
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin. New York's five boroughs come alive as people, and the rot trying to swallow the city wears the face of bigotry itself.
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami. An algorithm reads Sara's dreams and decides she's about to commit a crime. She hasn't. She gets detained anyway. Surveillance fiction that lands a little too close.
Lakewood, Megan Giddings. A young Black woman takes a job that's too good to be true: free housing, full coverage, secret medical research. The horror here isn't invented. It has a history.
Three books that hold a mirror to now. 🤎
📚 Grab your copies at www.sistahscifi.com, our Bookshop at bookshop.org/shop/SistahScifi, or on audio through @Libro.fm.
You can also request them from your favorite #library.
Which one are you reading first? 👇🏾
#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors #Library #BlackHorror #Afrofuturism #BookCommunity
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 7
View 0 replies
Load more